Who we are
Brewers’ yeast upcycling at world-market level – since 1954

Leiber refines brewers’ yeast into innovative products for humans and animals. For our customers we conduct research in our own laboratories and develop tailor-made solutions for healthy nutrition, biotechnology and agricultural applications. We reliably supply excellent products – and have been upcycling at world-market level since 1954.

Illustration of the brewing process

Research and development
Research and development in partnership
with production and science.

For our customers we are constantly seeking tailor-made solutions. We conduct research into extracts and nutrients that improve the flavour of food and support the health of humans and animals, as well as researching ingredients that facilitate the fermentation process in biotechnological applications. Together with our production colleagues, we work on transferring the results from our laboratories efficiently into large-scale production.

 

We continuously develop tried and tested products and processes, regularly expand our product portfolio. This is vital in order to retain and build our market position for sustainable products with added value for customers and the environment. Every day, our laboratories are developing products and applications and inventing and optimising processes. Time and again, our specialists in science and technology put their expertise into innovative applications, with a particular focus on brewers’ yeast as a raw material.

 

Networking with research facilities worldwide is just as important as interaction with the Leiber production units. We work closely with renowned Fraunhofer Society institutes and universities. Specifically, we offer students the opportunity to write their thesis on matters in our R&D departments. This way, we both support young academic talent and lay the foundations for future developments. If you have a specific research query or wish to write a thesis with us, we would love to hear from you.

Quality management
Quality from raw material to product solution.

Do you consider the quality of your products paramount? Then we have something in common. At Leiber, we plan quality into all processes and products from the very start. By keeping all our processes running reliably, we make sure that our customers always receive Leiber products at the quality level they have come to expect. Regular external audits testify that we adhere to the guaranteed standards.

 

Our quality management comprises all areas from purchasing and delivering new raw materials, through all production steps to the end product and the packaging. In order to keep the entire supply chain as transparent to our customers as it is to us, we ensure the traceability of all raw materials.

 

We use special tests and environmental analysis to monitor both the entire production chain and the operating conditions. In our own quality assurance laboratory at our Bramsche-Engter site, we can analyse samples in-house using over 80 different methods. This happens quickly and efficiently – right around the clock. Analysis that we cannot undertake ourselves is performed by accredited partner laboratories.

 

This high level of quality is verified several times per year. Our own specialists check whether all specifications and customer requirements are met. On top of that, our products and processes are audited and certified both internally and externally. As a result we hold the following certificates.

Zertifikate:

I. Leiber’s production processes

II. Leiber’s production processes

Cooperation/Innovation
Innovation requires cooperation.

What problems can we solve with our knowledge? What new applications can we develop? At Leiber, we ask ourselves these questions every day – or our customers and partners ask us these same questions. Do you have innovative ideas that we can develop together? Then let’s talk.

 

Brewers’ yeast is our primary raw material and we have been researching and harnessing its properties for decades. This research has prompted our interest in topics like natural ingredients, immunostimulation, natural crop protection, conditioners, upcycling, the circular economy, resource-conserving production, the avoidance of antibiotics, vegan nutrition and vegetarian preparations.

 

We support talent and start-ups or forge strategic alliances with companies whose focus is a good fit for us. Alongside our specialist expertise, we also offer state-of-the-art production facilities and laboratories.

We are always interested in further developing good ideas and our company in a sustainable way. Interested in joining us to devise new solutions? We would love to hear from you.

Current topics from Leiber GmbH

70 years of innovation – Leiber celebrates its anniversary

Leiber celebrates its anniversary with over 200 partners, friends and employees – 70 years of sustainable upcycling of brewer’s yeast

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ABN and Leiber join Forces on European Brewers´ Yeast Market

The Spanish Aplicaciones Biologicas a la Nutricion S.L., ABN, and the German Leiber GmbH are joining forces on the European Market for food and feed products derived from brewers´ yeast.

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The last Vitafoods in Geneva: Looking forward to Barcelona 2025

Vitafoods 2024, the world-renowned trade fair for nutraceuticals, took place in Geneva for the last time this year and was a great success.

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70 years of innovation

When Franz Leiber founded the company that now bears his name on 6 March 1954, the word upcycling didn’t yet exist. The founder’s basic idea of obtaining valuable extracts from secondary beer brewing streams was also innovative. Leiber is now a globally networked specialist for brewers’ yeast, and develops ingredients for biotechnology, the food industry, […]

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The site for you and your horse

The horse feed market is growing due to the increasing horse population worldwide. Especially the market for health related supplements and treats. Brewers’ yeast is a tried and tested feed ingredient with a long tradition in horse feeding and many benefits such as promoting digestion, skin, hoof, coat and metabolism, as well as fertility. However, […]

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Leiber presents new Yestimun® website at Vitafoods in Geneva

Leiber presented its wide range of Interyeast® Vital Brewers’ Yeast products with a high vitamin B content at Europe’s biggest nutraceuticals trade fair.

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Leiber brushes shoulders with the feed-to-food industry – VIV ASIA 2023 in Bangkok

Leiber met its customers and partners face to face again in Asia.

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Leiber is now a member of the German Association for Alternative Protein Sources (BalPro)

Since the beginning of 2023, Leiber has been a member of the BalPro Association for Alternative Protein Sources (“Verband für alternative Proteinquellen”). On 30 January, 2023, BalPro made the official announcement that Leiber is a new member of the association. Our company was featured on the BalPro website and on social networks such as LinkedIn. […]

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Leiber to strengthen strategic marketing and direct selling in Europe

To kick off 2023, Leiber is establishing a cross-functional marketing approach and stepping up its international sales in the Life Science Business Unit.   Karolin Kreutzer has been heading up Leiber’s cross-sector marketing department since 1.1.2023. As a trained advertising specialist and an experienced saleswoman, she previously represented Leiber’s Nutraceuticals Business Unit as its Global […]

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EuroTier again at last

Following the forced hiatus caused by the coronavirus pandemic, visitors at the EuroTier trade fair were delighted to engage in face-to-face talks again.

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Leiber invests in sustainability / Construction of a new biomass power plant

In future, Leiber will use waste wood to generate a large proportion of the heat energy and about one third of the electricity required for its production operations in Engter, Lower Saxony. To this end, the brewers’ yeast specialist is investing around 14 million euros in a new biomass power plant.   Regarding the start […]

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Leiber celebrates 20 years of production in Poland with a new plant

In September 2022, Leiber inaugurated a completely new drying plant for brewers’ yeast in Krosniewice – which coincided with the company’s 20th anniversary of entrepreneurial involvement in Poland. The employees at Krosniewice celebrated this dual achievement with local politicians and business representatives, and 15 colleagues from the headquarters in Bramsche. Katarzyna Erdman, the mayor of […]

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